... risk-taking in certain parts of the industry The CRMPG’s view was that “it is likely that flaws inthe design and workings of the systems of incentives within the financial sector have inadvertently ... include quality of the business, the risk management inthe business; the second, it is the quantum of bonus that is paid and making sure that is in line with the relative success of the business ... Banking Crisis: reforming corporate governance and pay intheCity Remuneration inthe banking sector Introduction The banking crisis has propelled the issue of remuneration practices in the...
... on the one hand andthe growing demand for healthy food on the other Another example might be the growing interest in local food, which is often equated with fresh and wholesome produce, and ... in a food system hitherto dominated by producer interests Chapter extends the thematic focus by examining the changing geographies of agri-food, contrasting the deterritorializing thrust of the ... apparent, since the basic components are often 12 Networks, Conventions, and Regions the same The only diVerence is in packaging andinthe addition of Xavouring and colouring Fresh fruit and vegetables...
... disappear in England as it has in France, all distinctions would thereby be lost Here Burke avows the central role of masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social, political, and ... of Union in Irish and English writing rights of the citizens, and all interest inthe constitution, inand to which they were born, was a thing conformable to the declared principles of the Revolution’’ ... to the United Kingdom were to be marginalized within the emerging national – and, increasingly, imperial – language canon And Gary Kelly locates the standardizing impulse more specifically in the...
... wars During the first of these civil wars, inthe 1960s, many Raga people were involved inthe southern insurgency In Darfur, which was not directly affected by the conflict, joining the government ... papers inthe National Archive in Khartoum Names of interviewees are not listed In some cases they requested anonymity, andin others there was not have time during the interview to explain how their ... participated inthe state But inthe second civil war, which began in 1983, the government succeeded in mobilizing people both in Raga andin Darfur into its armies and militias, to combat the new southern...
... Using the word bvaginaQ (as in bThe Vagina WorkshopQ) in a monologue about sexual pleasure and orgasm perpetuates the myth of the vaginal orgasm Feminists inthe late l960s, recapitulating insights ... the language of anatomy and physiology, providing readable information and multiple women’s testimonials In TVM, thepower is inthe performance itself, the process of the doing in public rather ... all the others inthe room, is individualized In bThe Vagina Workshop,Q each woman lies on her own blue mat, looking at and learning about her own vagina and clitoris This individualizes and...
... mark the position of the rising sun during equinox andthe summer and winter solstices To observe these events required standing on the observatory pyramid to the west and facing three minor ... portals to the Underworld; and (4) the division of the world into the four cardinal points, including the centre point, and their corresponding colours (Ashmore 1992: 174) Factors such as these were ... cooking, eating, storage, and sometimes bathing take place inthe k’o´ b’en (“kitchen”), whereas sleeping, dresso ing, andthe receiving of guests occur inthe nah (Hanks ´ 1990: 333–334) In the...
... preventing minor conflicts from spiraling out of control, vegetation might inhibit violent crimes in some residences without increasing violent crimes in others On the other hand, by increasing informal ... vegetation and sense of safety in residential settings The findings from residential settings are in direct contrast to those obtained in studies of nonresidential settings: In residential settings, the ... (1988) Landscape care: Perceptions of local people in landscape ecology and sustainable development In Landscape and land use planning: Proceedings from the 1988 International Federation of Landscape...
... Army officer and then spent twenty years in a variety of sales, marketing, and training roles inthe pharmaceutical industry Mike is also a speaker and adjunct professor teaching inthe doctoral ... the ideas in this book in three main categories: Training and development services: direct training for teams and individuals Train the trainer services: Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) certification, ... through the crowded bullpen of the sales department, his face burning, his limbs tingling Did they know? Were they staring? The infamous grapevine of Starr Industries was quite clear on the matter...
... take institutions and social /power relations for granted but calls them into question by concerning itself with their origins and how and whether they might be inthe process of changing In other ... disciplinary ferment inthe field of international relations (IR), and new issues have stimulated new ways of understanding them The end of the Cold War andthe consequent decline inthe predominance ... position and experience while remaining committed to producing the kind of knowledge that can contribute to the lessening of women’s subordination Understanding subordination and uncovering the gendered...
... from the breast, to awaken in another individual an echo returning to the ear Man thereby at once discovers that around him there are beings having the same inner needs, and thus capable of meeting ... Lorenzo the Magnificent son of Piero di Medici.” The meaning of the text is found in this address: Machiavelli wants to explain princely power to the prince in order to inspire the prince to act ... between these two; it is a work of politics, written for the Italian princes of its epoch, according to their taste, according to their principles, and to the goal which Machiavelli indicates in the...
... their own As the state loses interest inthe well-being of its citizens, its citizens lose interest inthe wellbeing of the state They look elsewhere for sources of identity and focuses for their ... But most books and films The Coming Conflict with China (Bernstein and Munro, 1997), Independence Day and Armageddon, andthe “Y2K” furor come to mind here—offer the reader (and the policymaker) ... (1944/1957) in explaining the causes of the two World Wars, and to the ways in which knowledge and social innovation have transformed our relationship to the nation-state and to each other In chapter...
... communities and institutions, going about their business within the inherited structures of class struggle So what are the critical institutions representing thepowerand interests of the rich? ... however, in explaining the intimacy between [ ] Bracking_02_cha01.qxd 12/02/2009 10:56 Page MONEY ANDPOWERthe development industry andthe promotion of capitalism, through detailing the interventions ... highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers critical insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice andthe political and social forces that are available across the...
... to the context in which the money is found and its relative price The word we use in a particular context relies on how much the price is, who is doing the lending and borrowing and where inthe ... negative real interest rates inthe mid 1970s changing to high interest rates in 1979 after the Volcker Shock, and even higher in 1981; global recession inthe early 1980s and again inthe early ... www.mountainvoices.net/ lesotho.asp.html The inadequacy of the development duopoly of the modern and ‘other’, the developed and developing, is well critiqued since the seminal Culture and Imperialism...
... concentrated inthe IFIs and large banks They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), inthe boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the ... machine to undermine the critique of global power to which the international worker and social movement is inclined It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag of corn inthe ... andthe public force to extend the field of their private investments, and to safeguard and improve their existing investments This is, perhaps, the most important fact in modern politics, and the...
... MONEY ANDPOWER business cultures in their management of risk, in addition to financial instruments and sensitivity testing, and other modes of quantification and provisioning In this there is ... official inthe CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving andthe politicians, ... feature’, and by so doing contributed to greater integration and cross-provisioning inthe international financial system, allowing the whole geography of ‘Turkey’ to effectively ‘join in , and move...
... partly offset by the establishment of the developmental discourse and its institutions, including the CDC Even in 1937 and 1938 there had been widespread riots inthe West Indies against colonial ... Marx The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank as early as 1950 inthe co-financing of the Kariba Dam project inthe then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment ... continued role of the CDC in winning back legitimacy for British commercial and state interests [ 71 ] Bracking_06_cha05.qxd 10/02/2009 12:34 Page 72 MONEY ANDPOWERIn 1961 the CDC won the 1961...
... the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity The case study shows how one dominant core lender inthe global interstate system, Britain, ... eight not recording any value, and Eritrea and Namibia not existing, and a further twelve remained negative in 2005, with seven not recording In other words, there was considerable disinvestment of ... the seven years since 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003 The ODF flows remained healthily positive, but as the definitions indicate, these include finance transferring at non-concessional...
... reflected its global powerand predominant influence inthe Bank, as well as it being the largest shareholder The numbers in parentheses in Table 7.2 are the rank order in which countries’ companies ... Scandinavian engineering firms and French and German firms whose employees are increasingly multilingual (ibid.) The multilateral organisations can thus be seen as the intermediaries in an institutionalised ... such as China Inthe early 1990s, the pattern of beneficiaries was more overwhelmingly the core creditor states, whereas now newly industrialised countries and India and China have joined in as major...
... The remaining shares are owned by IFIs, and French finance institutions and companies The AFD has two permanent positions on the board of directors The Ministry of Economic Affairs andthe Ministry ... think they will keep the CDC doing what they would like to keep the CDC doing, what it does To be called developmental in inverted commas On the other hand, CDC is, there is a pressure by the ... companies, andin sponsoring financial institutions and instruments The IFC set up its Capital Markets Department back in 1971 and initiates a ‘high proportion’ of financial sector interventions...
... well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recycling, of finance capital from the core states In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the World ... 2008c) Also, Flamingo has processing, distribution and marketing operations inthe UK, and is the UK’s leading supplier to supermarkets, including Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury and Safeway As ... CDC’s investment will be used to support the company’s growth plans, which include the acquisition of other horticultural businesses in Africa andthe UK to strengthen its supply chain and expand...